Leonid Pushkin Quotes in The Living Daylights (1987)

Brad Whitaker: How do you like my personal pantheon of great commanders?

Leonid Pushkin: Butchers.

Brad Whitaker: Surgeons. They cut away society's dead flesh.

James Bond: [Bond is pointing a gun at him] Get down on your knees. Put your hands behind your back.

Leonid Pushkin: You are professional. You do not kill without reason.

James Bond: 2 of our men are dead. Koskov's named you. Why should I disobey my orders?

Leonid Pushkin: I am in the dark as much as you. It is a question of trust. Who do you believe? Koskov, or me?

James Bond: If I trusted Koskov we wouldn't be talking. But as long as you're alive, we'll never know what he's up to.

Leonid Pushkin: [Slowly] Then I must die.

Leonid Pushkin: [Bond gets the drop on Pushkin] I take this is not a social call, 007.

James Bond: Correct.

[referring to flowers]

James Bond: You should have brought lilies.

Leonid Pushkin: May I ask why?

James Bond: Smiert Spionam.

Leonid Pushkin: Smiert Spionam? Was a Beria operation, in Stalin's time. It was deactivated 20 years ago.

James Bond: Two of our men are dead.

Leonid Pushkin: My condolences. We had nothing to do with it.

Leonid Pushkin: Put him on the next plane to Moscow...

General Georgi Koskov: Oh, thank you General, thank you so much...

Leonid Pushkin: ...in the diplomatic bag.